We’re big fans of high tops, and the SK8-Hi is one of our all-time favorites, so we’re excited for the opportunity to make a version that’s distinctly ours. The three layered “jazz stripes” overlap to create a textured feel — a first for the Vans OG, giving our own twist to an already iconic shoe.

Built with a premium leather upper and soft leather liner, they feature contrast white stitch, Bows and Arrows branding on the tongue label, and a primary striped outsole. We love the under-represented black vulcanized sole and the pops of primary color on the jazz-stripes are inspired by traditional motorsports and graphics.

For this shoe we wanted to use elements that for us typically represent ourselves and our city on one hand, and Vans on the other hand. This is why we chose to have a tiger print to symbolize Vier, as animal prints in general have always been something very visible in our shop, whether it is in our interior or in the selection we make from other brands. The picture on the inner sole is from Antwerp’s red light district: we often make references to our city, but most of the time we like to highlight the more uncommon part of it. To have Vans being strongly represented, we decided to use its OG palm print, that for us is one of the brand’s most recognizable and iconic prints. We feel it goes perfectly with the tiger print and the "Vamos a la playa” written on the sole, a sentence that has almost become our shop’s slogan. For us it means more or less that we do what we want, when we want, without too much pressure from others: if we’re not into it anymore, we’re off to the beach so to speak.

The design of the Authentic is inspired from Worksout’s iconic material “Zinc” and “Mesh”, which is used for the exterior and the interior of the Worksout store in Seoul, Korea. The main shoe panels are covered by “Mesh” and the metallic shoelace represents “Zinc”. Finally, the hidden reflective layer represents the worthiness of the WORKSOUT brand.